Leisure trips in February 2009

In February Finnish residents made 388,000
overnight leisure trips abroad. Of these trips 237,000 included one
or more overnights in the country of destination. A one-sixth of
these trips were headed to Estonia. Most of the cruises including
overnights on board only were to Sweden and Estonia. These
preliminary data are based on Statistics Finland's Finnish Travel
Survey for which 1,488 persons aged 15 to 74 permanently resident
in Finland were interviewed in March.

Finnish residents made 1.9 million leisure trips in Finland.
This is 2 per cent down from the corresponding period in the year
before. Most of the trips, or 1.5 million, included free
accommodation at one's own free-time residence, with relatives or
friends or in some other type of free accommodation.

The final and more accurate data on the Finnish Travel Survey
are published in the annual publication on Finnish travel. In
addition, quarterly preliminary data are published in connection
with the monthly publication Tourism Statistics (accommodation
statistics) two months after the end of the relevant quarter.